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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Inside “Gamechanger Salon,” The Left’s Action Network

An extensive membership list and a calendar of events offer insight into a leftwing network first revealed by Media Trackers last week. Gamechanger Salon is a members-only Google group run by Billy Wimsatt
for forward thinking and top-level political activists on the Left.
Members of the group include senior level political hands at NARAL, the
SEIU, the AFL-CIO and Planned Parenthood, among dozens of other groups.

Media
Trackers first uncovered the network in records obtained through an
open records request filed with a University of Wisconsin professor. The
membership list released today is far more detailed than the list
released last week, and the calendar offers insight into the group’s
plans for coordinated action in the future.

In 2010 he co-wrote a column about voter guides for the Huffington Post with the controversial Van Jones, who resigned from the Obama Administration
in 2009 amid outrage over his advocacy for a convicted cop killer and
signature on a petition saying the Bush Administration willfully allowed
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to happen.

The
detailed version of the membership list contains names and group
affiliations for members, as well as brief biographies and contact
information for some members.

A book club section of the list
contains recommended reading material and occasional quick reviews of
the books explaining why they are important for liberal activists and
organizers. Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church makes the
list because, as Wimsatt notes in his review, “it’s a F#$@ING BRILLIANT
and provocative book about the art and science of organizing that in
part shows on many levels why right-wing evangelicals are organizing
circles around us (even though much of what they’re selling is snake
oil).”

Another book that Wimsatt recommends to the membership is Mockingjay,
the third and final installment of The Hunger Games series. According
to Wimsatt’s review, “Third Hunger Games Book. People say it’s great and
complex parable of revolution – and it will help us get ready to
leverage the next 2 movies better.”

Other portions of the
extensive membership document recommend movies, songs, television shows,
recommended websites and blogs, and goals for the online Gamechanger
community. Two of the goals listed are “Recruit 200 key community-based
organizers, especially women and people of color,” and “Recruit 100 key
diverse bloggers, movement journalists, and pundits.” Another goal
involves theorizing about a “TED-like conference for folks.”

To
facilitate interaction among the groups represented in Gamechanger
Salon, a calendar detailing upcoming events is maintained with ample
notes about the importance and focus of each particular item.

For
August, two training events and a festival are on the calendar. On
September 23, liberal groups appear to be working on holding a day of
action registering voters ahead of the mid-term election in November. A
“Trick or Vote” event is scheduled as a national action step on October
31.

The full calendar that Media Trackers obtained from a
non-password protected link (that has since been closed) and the full
membership list are below.